JeremusCaesar

I have a 1ghz eMac with 512mb RAM connected to a TV running at 1388x768. When I play video on it, it tends to be incredibly choppy. Does anyone have a machine like this that they have successfully gotten to play video on an external screen or shall I simply give up? I'd be prepared to upgrade the RAM or change configuration or such things, but I don't want to screw with it in the hopes that it will work, if it's just not capable and I need to plug in a better machine.

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15" Macbook Pro i7, Mac Mini Server i7, iPhone 4S, iPad (3)

ericlewis91

ram will likely help

video is a ram hogger

JeremusCaesar

It can only go to 1gb. Do you think that will be enough?

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15" Macbook Pro i7, Mac Mini Server i7, iPhone 4S, iPad (3)

Carl

Before I got my 24" iMac, I used a 1 Ghz eMac for video and attached it to my TV.

Two things, you need the full 1 Gig of RAM, and you need to use VLC as the video player.

You could try VLC first and see if it is better.

CanadaRAM

There are two versions of the 1 GHz eMac -- the USB 1.1 version takes PC133 RAM, and the USB 2.0 version takes DDR PC2700 (or PC3200) RAM. You can check by going to System Profiler (Apple menu, About this Mac, More info...) and clicking on the Memory tab. You should see the speed of your existing RAM listed there.

If you have the DDR version, then you can go to 2 GB RAM with 2 x 1 GB DIMMs.

Carl

I believe the USB 2.0 version came with a speed bump to 1.25 Ghz. I remember being annoyed at the time the USB 2.0 came out, as I had the previous iteration.

joemulder

I have the same emac, will try it out next week.